 Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they: Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made.  Essays on Educational Reformers - Side 451af Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 568 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 sider
...fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. These leave the sense, their learning to display, us And those explain the meaning quite away. You... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 sider
...Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, %>v Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they. ^ Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. These leave the sense, their learning to display, lie And those explain the meaning quite away. You... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 sider
...bome on the leaves of ancient authors prey; IN or time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they : aome drily plain, without invention's aid * Write dull receipts how poems may be made ; Inese leave the sense their learning to display, ^r,d those explain the meaning quite awayf Kn™theVhT^... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 520 sider
...would not willingly let die." There is one of the satirists justly severe on a class of critics " Who, drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made." But at some risk of rendering myself obnoxious to his censure, I shall attempt indicating at least... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 540 sider
...would not willingly let die." There is one of the satirists justly severe on a class of critics " Who, drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made." But at some risk of rendering myself obnoxious to' his censure, I shall attempt indicating at least... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 sider
...fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey ; Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they ; Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made ; These leave the sense their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
 | John Walker - 1859 - 720 sider
...instead of shily, drily, driness. Warburton, in his edition of Pope, every where adheres to this analogy. Some drily plain, without invention's aid. Write dull receipts how poems may be maoe. Eteay on Crit. Though in the first edition of this Essay, published by Pope himself, we find... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 sider
...fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey. Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they : Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. These leave tho sense, thei- learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. You then,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 sider
...masters fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey, Nor time nor moths e'er spoil so much as they. Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made. These leave the sense, their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. Music resembles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 sider
...fools. Some on the leaves of ancient authors prey ; Nor time nor moths e'er spoil'd so much as they ; Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made ; These leave the sense their learning to display, And those explain the meaning quite away. You then... | |
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